Roger takes Brianna to the Culloden visitor center where she remarks that a mannequin of the Duke of Cumberland has a little piggy face. Roger tells her the Duke was called Butcher Billy, and the people of the Highlands are not very fond of him. He tells her that the reverend was his mother’s uncle and adopted him when his parents were killed in the war. He says his last name is MacKenzie and that quite a few of his relatives lie under the clan stone on Culloden Field.
Roger escorts Brianna around the battle site, explaining various things and giving her a history of the place. When he drives her back to their bread and breakfast, she thanks him and offers to help him with the grubby task of cleaning out the Reverend’s papers and Roger eagerly agrees. The next day, while Claire is at the library, they tackle the garage and find a set of the Reverend’s journals. They search for parish registers and records regarding the villages within the area of Broch Tuarach. When Brianna is startled by a mouse, Roger amuses her with rat satires, short rhymes warning away rodents. They also find a box ily tree, which shows the date he married Claire in 1937. They also find a letter of commission signed by the king for Jonathan Randall.
The next day, Roger takes Brianna and Claire to St. Kilda, a small village near Broch Tuarach. He brings them to the church there, which has become a little run down since the Reverend died. Roger and Bree amuse themselves with some of the more colorful inscriptions on the gravestones, while Claire wanders about looking for plants. Brianna finds the gravestone for Jonathan Randall and waves Claire over. She’s shocked angrily when she sees it. Brianna expected her to be excited to see the stone, not angry. Claire insists they go see the inside of the church while she sits in the shade.
Inside the church, Roger and Brianna kiss for the first time and then hear a scream from outside. Continua a leggere “She asks Roger if Roger is Scottish, saying that Wakefield doesn’t sound Scottish”